Posted: 8/9/2009 1:17:35 AM EDT
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Why the hell do people create these damn things?
I dont have anything better to do with my time than search through the active files to see which ones dont look right as I cross reference them in the file directories to determine which of them were recently created. Its not as though I would rather be using my computer....I'd much rather be googling filenames in search of removal guidance. What better to do in the middle of the night than hunt down the registry keys with references to the pre-load points of all the things I just deleted, just to make sure there is no chance of them coming back? And hey, after a few hours of handywork to keep from re-imagining my hard drive again, what do I care if I begin to see more signs that the malware has infected the registry so deeply that my only real alternative is to wipe the disk and reload the OS? Its so cool when the virus scan will detect a threat but cant clean it, even though I can manually remove the files myself. Kinda like a home alarm....it lets me know that there is a problem but I actually have to grab a gun and do the shooting myself. Fuck viruses, and fuck the internet where they come from.....oh, and fuck the pieces of shit that author this code. Assholes with ability...thats what I will call them. I have no other explanation for someone with the raw talent to write code but to use that talent to write malicious scripts. God damned bastard kids turning the Internet into a minefield that my aging ass it growing tired of trying to navigate. Its gotten to the point where you dont even want to search for something becuase that helpful 3rd party application that you are looking for will instead be some trojan horse that rips the asshole out of your PC. And no, I dont want a linux box. Thats a little like wanting a radio but instead buying one of the "101 Electrical Projects" kits that you have to connect up all the discrete components to build your own electronic circuits. And no, not interested in a Mac...just because its white and minimalist it doesnt make it crash-proof. Computers suck....if it wasnt for ARFCOM I probably wouldnt even care so much...I could live without daily Internet browsing....maybe its time to just unplug and start reading newspapers again. Jesus H. Christ in a ball gag.....could spyware be anymore of a pain in the ass? Fuck 
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wow i dont know how to do any of that shit. no wonder my computer is so bogged down You are better off not knowing...then when your computer is infected you wont think about all the work you have to do. I assume its like being a mechanic.....if my truck breaks down beyond reasonable roadside repair I call a tow truck and take it to a mechanic. Now....if I was a mechanic, I'd probably be sitting at the side of the road ripping the top of the motor apart, not willing to tow the damn thing until I had exhausted every last possible solution. But im not a mechanic by trade, and I dont carry all my tools with me at all times, so i just make a phone call and let the experts deal with it. |
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So after a few hours, thinking I had successfully found every last miserable file associated with the latest exploit.....up pops my autodetect window to let me know it found yet another trojan. At least SAV is finding the stuff. I may just nuke this drive later today if I get bored.
I keep everything of any value to me on a backup drive that remains disconnected, I only hook it up to synchronize my folders. Takes me about 3 hours to fully re-image the PC from scratch - I dont really feel like spending my afternoon that way...but apparently some dickwad software pussy who decided to get back at the world because he got his milk money stolen in grade school is going to force me into wasting my Sunday rebuilding what the dickless emo kid just had to destroy. |
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I have been on the internet since the 80s, and I have never gotten a virus.
In fact, the only time I have ever found a virus on a computer was when the boss where I worked took a computer in to get a new disc drive put into it (back in the 80, he didn't ask me). When he got it back, I scanned it and found the "Stoner' virus on it. I don't know whether I am just damn lucky, or just don't go surfing around questionable sights. Not casting aspersions, just perplexed by folks that have such problems with viruses. |
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I have been on the internet since the 80s, and I have never gotten a virus. In fact, the only time I have ever found a virus on a computer was when the boss where I worked took a computer in to get a new disc drive put into it (back in the 80, he didn't ask me). When he got it back, I scanned it and found the "Stoner' virus on it. I don't know whether I am just damn lucky, or just don't go surfing around questionable sights. Not casting aspersions, just perplexed by folks that have such problems with viruses. They are easily avoidable if you stick to a few well know, trusted sites. The problems start when you search a lot.....regardless of what you are searching for. People (asshole code writers) will embed their work in just about anything. I've picked them up searching for music lyrics, image searches for a political add, trying to find parts for an ice maker (I cant make this shit up), and a whole host of other things that started out as fairly benign searches only to click on a link to what I expected to be information and then get hosed. If I just hit the 3 or 4 websites that I surf daily and never search for anything, I'd never get a virus again. Its when I want to know something that I dont already (which is pretty much every time Im sitting in front of my keyboard) that the risk factor goes up. |
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I have been on the internet since the 80s, and I have never gotten a virus. In fact, the only time I have ever found a virus on a computer was when the boss where I worked took a computer in to get a new disc drive put into it (back in the 80, he didn't ask me). When he got it back, I scanned it and found the "Stoner' virus on it. I don't know whether I am just damn lucky, or just don't go surfing around questionable sights. Not casting aspersions, just perplexed by folks that have such problems with viruses. They are easily avoidable if you stick to a few well know, trusted sites. The problems start when you search a lot.....regardless of what you are searching for. People (asshole code writers) will embed their work in just about anything. I've picked them up searching for music lyrics, image searches for a political add, trying to find parts for an ice maker (I cant make this shit up), and a whole host of other things that started out as fairly benign searches only to click on a link to what I expected to be information and then get hosed. If I just hit the 3 or 4 websites that I surf daily and never search for anything, I'd never get a virus again. Its when I want to know something that I dont already (which is pretty much every time Im sitting in front of my keyboard) that the risk factor goes up. I search lot, not tons, but I search quite a bit. Most of what I search for is chemistry related or having to do with guns or something along those line. If I need parts for my car, I search for car parts. If the wife wants to re-do something in the house we have never done, I search for that. I would say I search through various sights about two or three times a week, minimum. Again, I guess since I mostly search for gun and science shit |
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I've used Panda, Kapersky, AVG, and even Norton and McAfee anti-virus back in the day but still can claim I've never had a virus installed on my computer. When friends and neighbors bring their thumb drives and hard drives over it's almost for certain they're infected and my machine cleans their infected files out.
Don't use the administrator account, don't open unsolicited email, and keep your virus signatures up-to-date. |